From:	David Hinkley dhinkley@***.org
Subject:	Thoughts: sourcebook ideas
Date:	Wed, 14 Jul 1999 03:05:14 -0700

From: "Jarmo Karonen" <jarmo.karonen@***.fi>
To: <shadowrn@*********.org>
Subject: Re: Thoughts: sourcebook ideas
Date sent: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 18:17:20 +0300
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> MC23 wrote:
>
> > I would like to see a Shadowrun Almanac with a new one published
> >yearly. The world at a glance could be useful. Making such a book truly
> >marketable is the challenge. Maybe if FASA could make their own online
> >zine like SJG's Pyramid then there would be an even better place for
> such
> >material. Hmmm, the best of that material could be published as the
> >Almanacs. I like that idea. Hmmm.....
>
> This Shadowrun Almanac could also include a timeline of events for the
> given year collected from all the sourcebooks that are set to that year.
> I personally would need this kind a book. I mean, there's just too many
> dates to keep up with in books like PoaD, Mob War! or Blood in the
> Boardroom.
>
> Let me guess: nobody else finds this a problem...
>
Wrong..Try again

This is more then a small problem, particularly the little details and references
to places and happenings that one might not associate with a particular book,
adventure or novel. Finding that "fact" you faintly remember can be a bear.




David G. Hinkley
dhinkley@***.org
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